Showing posts with label review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label review. Show all posts
Sunday, December 14, 2025

The Marvellous(?) Miniature Workshop

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  Can I be a little controversial? There is a TV show called The Marvellous Miniature Workshop . It should be right up my street - and I rea...
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Friday, July 19, 2024

Review: Dapol Hawthorn Leslie locomotive

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  A recent purchase. As it turns out, I bought the wrong loco, but we'll come to that in a minute... The range of small RTR shunters is ...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2022

The Army Painter - Matt Varnish

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  One shiny diecast 4mm scale VW Beetle body.  A couple of coats of The Army Painter Matt Varnish later.  Suddenly, we have a matt Beetle. ...
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Wednesday, August 18, 2021

New look Humbrol weathering powders

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    The nice people at Hornby recently sent me some of their new-look weathering powders to use in my projects. I understand that there has ...
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Monday, July 19, 2021

New brushes

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I paint a lot of stuff, and so am always on the lookout for modestly priced brushes that are good enough for the sort of work I do.  £10 for...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Review: Clear PVA glue - The Works

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It was an exciting moment when I dropped into remaindered book shop The Works, and found they had bottles of a clear PVA glue on sale.  We a...
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Monday, February 22, 2021

Airbrush test Part 2

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You might remember that a few weeks ago, I tried out a cheap airbrush with hand-held compressor.  If you didn't the post is here, go and...
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Monday, February 01, 2021

Mini Airbrush With Compact Compressor test

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   I saw it advertised on Facebook. Decided it could be useful and not too expensive, but am I happy?
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Monday, October 12, 2020

Using scalemodelscenery Old Wooden Fencing

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Selly Oak in the 1970s was a bit scruffy and the area beside the canal was a prime example of this. Modelling scruffy can be time consuming ...
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Thursday, August 01, 2019

Challenger Aircraft Carrier

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I need to ban my Dad from ordering stuff over the phone. Left to his own devices when calling Howes, he managed to buy a RTR aircraft car...
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Thursday, February 21, 2019

L-Cut Creative 2-tier paint tray

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I like toolboxes and spotted this nice little paint organiser on the L-Cut Creative stand at Doncaster. £7.99 buys an easy to assemble k...
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Friday, November 30, 2018

Grinding Machime

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A few months ago, I bunged a " U Star Grinding Machime " (sic) into a larger order from Hobbyking. It only cost £3.77 at the ti...
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Monday, October 08, 2018

Review: GVS Elipse spray mask

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A face mask is an absolute essential when spray painting or airbrushing. You might think that you're only working on a model so it wo...
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Friday, September 21, 2018

Harris "No Loss" brush review

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Faced with a "garden room" (posh shed) requiring a coat of yacht varnish before winter, I headed to the local DIY store for some...
Tuesday, July 10, 2018

MiG Oilbrusher

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New, to me anyway, is this handy painting goodie from MiG. To anyone who has owned a car and carried out any work on it, it looks like a t...
Monday, July 09, 2018

Robert's Brick Mortar Formula

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One of my Canadian souvenirs, is this little bottle of "Roberts Brick Mortar Formula". It's a magic substance that claims t...
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Monday, April 09, 2018

Feed my ego

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Perhaps the biggest surprise at York came when I collected a couple of kits for review Stephen at Narrow Planet . Not only where they as ...
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Monday, February 05, 2018

Review: The Biggest Little Railway in the World

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Caveat: I have met the producer of  " The Biggest Little Railway in the World " a couple of times and read two accounts from t...
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Monday, March 06, 2017

Book Review: Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik

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Publisher: Viking ISBN: 978-0670920549 A5 Softback 272 pages £9.98 Most of my work involved messing around with various materi...
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Thursday, February 23, 2017

Book Review: The Hovercraft. A history by Ashley Hollebone

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Publisher: The History Press ISBN: 978-0752-464794 A5 Softback 188 pages £19.99  Unusual forms of transport fascinate me. When...
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